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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Interpreted strings
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Date: 7 Sep 90 18:14:54 GMT
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In article <9009071315.AA02300@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> wmb%MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV writes:
> multi-user databases.  I mean hundreds of users on a system,
> not just a few.  The interpreted string buffers would have to be a per-user
> resource, and that can add up to a lot of memory.

Would all these users have their own interactive Forth interpreter? If not,
the point is moot. If so, I can't think but that they must have *tiny* heaps.
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